Sundar Pichai turned 53: When Google's CEO remembers childhood - 'had no running water, used to stand for hours' | Company Business News

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, was celebrated today (June 10). When the top manager turned 53 on Tuesday, his journey to climb the technical learning was nothing less than extraordinary. Sundar Pichai recently spoke to Lex Fridman in a podcast and remembers how it was a luxury during his childhood, even to get basic things. Pichai, who opened his childhood in Madras, now Chennai, said that these forming years helped him become who he is today and form his approach to life. Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke no running water on the podcast, and reflected on how even running water was not available when a drought hit his city during his childhood. “We had no running water. You know, it was a massive drought. They (authorities) would get water in these trucks, maybe eight buckets per household, ‘he said. Pichai revealed that he was in line with his brother and mother to get the water. “So my brother and me, sometimes my mother, we would wait in line, get it right,” he said. Sundar Pichai also took no phone reports, and he also remembered how the idea of ​​immediate access to information, even with a phone, was a dream. There was a five-year waiting list. We got a rotating phone. It has changed our lives dramatically, ‘he said.’ People will come to our house to call their loved ones, ‘recalls Pichai. The lack of phones or any other technology will even affect people’s access to their medical records, Google CEO said: ‘I will have to go to the hospital for two hours to get blood test records, and it will take two hours. Then they would say, ‘Sorry, it’s not ready; Come back the next day. ‘Two hours to come back. It became a five-minute thing, ‘he said. These experiences helped Sundar Pichai understand his passion for technology and ultimately follow it as his career, and become successful. ‘ As a child, even this light bulb went into my head, this power of technology to change people’s lives, ‘he said. Sundar Pichai was born on June 10 and had a small place with his parents. Anecdotes of his childhood and described incidents that inspired him to succeed and eventually the CEO of Google.